Hi
We have a partnership, which started on 23.01.2018. We are trying to complete the SA800 for tax year 2017-2018. Our understanding was that the accounting period would start on 23.01.2018 and end on 31.01.2019. When trying to enter this, we get an error message 'accounting period end date entered beyond current tax year end'. Is anyone able to advise us on this please?

Hi
We have a partnership, which started on 23.01.2018. We are trying to complete the SA800 for tax year 2017-2018. Our understanding was that the accounting period would start on 23.01.2018 and end on 31.01.2019. When trying to enter this, we get an error message 'accounting period end date entered beyond current tax year end'. Is anyone able to advise us on this please?

It means that the date you are trying to enter is after 5 April 2018 (which is the last day of the 2017-18 tax year). You cannot enter a period of account that ends after the end of the tax year for the return you are trying to complete. That would mean entering 2018-19 income in the in 2017-18 return.

Your accounts for the period to 31/1/2019 will go into a 2018-19 tax return. If you consider that 31/1/2019 has not been reached, and you clearly have not made up any accounts to that date, what figures were you planning on entering in this return anyway?

Why do you think that the accounting period ends on 31/1/2019? The accounting period can end on whatever date you want it to end. You can use 31/1/2019 if you want, but it does not need to be that date. The date to which you draw your account up to is something you ought to have considered when the business started. How else could you plan and forecast?